Summary
Maya Hernandez is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building customer-facing web and messaging platforms, currently based in Leeds and working at Pinpoint ATS. She spent six years at Braze driving full-stack work in Ruby, React/TypeScript, MongoDB and AWS, leading projects like Double Opt-in and multi-provider SMS/WhatsApp integrations while decaffeinating legacy frontend code. Maya combines hands-on implementation, code review and on-call reliability with mentorship and interview committee experience, ensuring fast turnarounds and smooth onboarding. She has a CS degree from UC Berkeley and a track record of translating product needs into robust integrations with third-party APIs such as SendGrid, SparkPost, Infobip and WhatsApp Cloud. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic project chunking, cross-functional collaboration and measurable telemetry through DataDog. Outside core work she maintains a personal portfolio and blog, reflecting a continuous focus on craft and communication.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
High School, High School at Natomas High School
English, French, Cebuano, Hindi